Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I really didn't like it a first, it got under my skin often, and for good reason, it's dirrrty. But... the prose. My god the prose! The prose is in a world all it's own. Those pretty pretty complex words that confuse and entice and never let up. Never, not once. Nabokov can write. Lolita is two parts highbrow literature, too one part lurid pulp trash. Or is it the other way around?? It gracefully dances back and forth between a subtle but savage satire on high and low art, American vs European attitudes, the travel industry... and least we forget at it's creepy core, Humbert Humbert's story (in his own words) about his undying love/conquest of nymphet Lolita.



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